SOC2069 Quantitative Datasets
Workshop data
References
Wilkinson RG and Pickett K (2010) The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger. New York: Bloomsbury Press.
This dataset combines data on “generalised/social trust” from the latest waves of the World Values Survey and the European Values Study with macro(country)-level data on World Development Indicators (WDI) provided by the World Bank. The main variables of interest taken from the WDI refer to measurements of economic inequality within countries. The dataset allows to replicate - using the latest available data - the analysis of the relationship between inequality and trust presented in Chapter 4 (“Community life and social relations”, pp. 49-62) of Wilkinson and Pickett (2010).